braving the bird flu and the delinquency of squirrels

Well, perhaps that’s a bit dramatic, but given my dark desire to discover disaster (and clearly my penchant for words beginning with ‘d’) I did look for dead birds at the river…
None to be found. I declare The Thames in Bray free from bird flu today.

I was feeling a bit better this afternoon (sinus cold on its way out) and so we headed for the river to feed the ducks. I figured the whole ‘pandemic thing’ might be putting folks off of feeding waterfowl, so I felt it my duty to scatter fresh bread.

Around the park there are signs posted asking people to not feed the squirrels, as they are entirely too friendly already (read: they scare the poop out of children with their boldness). Proof of such cheeky behaviour: as I sat on a log on the riverbank one crawled up and stared right in my face from less than a foot away! I thought that stuff only happens in Disney films!

Anyway, no pics of the birds (no hands to sign release forms) but I did get my squirrel friend to sit still for my camera phone. (I paid him with a tiny piece of bread, but the way he was following me around… well, I’m sure he puts on the sugar-sweetness for everyone that walks by. Besides, he was stealing from the ducks and geese anyway. I’m hardly corrupting him… honest!)

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This is just to let you know, that we found the recent post in your Blog, related to the bird flu virus, to be interesting, with a your cute but perplexed looking squirrel friend and have today added that entry of your blog, to our site: http://www.birdflubreakingnews.com.

Thank you for this and we hope that you will continue to produce smiles on a great number of otherwise serious faces around the world!

I suppose in a quirky way I am being positive about the situation. I was not afraid to hang out with waterfowl and hope that others swallow their fear and ‚Äö?Ñ?Æcautiously‚Äö?Ñ?Æ¬¨‚Ä†get on with normal life. 🙂